yes, it's variant names that can't have + and - in them. Momentarily crossed that wire.
K > On Aug 7, 2020, at 00:01, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Aug 6, 2020, at 09:10, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> >> So a port that installs the Zoom teleconferencing application would be >> called "zoom_binary". (We can't use "zoom-binary" because variants us the + >> and - to do their thing.) > > Calling it "zoom-binary" would be fine. Yes, "+" and "-" are used to select > and deselect variants, but MacPorts allows "-" in port names; we already have > thousands of ports with "-" in their names. >
